Look alive as you can Suicide Squad, class is in session at Teen Titans Academy. Yeah I know the complaints, “three issues in and already a crossover”, well not much we can do about it but hope that it isn’t bad. Anyway before we begin I will say I’m pretty sure this takes place before the end of issue 2 of Teen Titans Academy mainly because this doesn’t actually take place inside the academy...yeah see as it turns out Waller knows a little better then to tick off the Titans.
So the plan is simple: they are going to kidnap Bolt, if you have no idea who that is check Academy, while she is outside of the Academy on a run. But it wouldn’t be Suicide Squad if things didn’t immediately go to hell. Yeah see they get some new members, who I have no idea who they are or if they are new, called Keymaster and Branch. Keymaster is a new teleporter to transport Bolt and Branch is to trip her with his branches....but instead Keymaster tries to escape through a portal which sets off his bomb and lights Branch on fire and from there things go awry because Bolt is faster then everyone and Superboy is not really trying. So peacemaker says plan change and it’s time to storm the academy which is when Red X shows up, beats Peacemaker, and offers to help them bust in.
That is that, not a terrible start to a crossover and it seemed like Waller actually had a good plan if not for human error from some of the new squad members. I do like that Waller is utilizing a wide range of characters new and obscure, with Superboy, Talon, Peacemaker and I guess Nocturna being the bigger names so far. As for Superboy there is also a plot line that something is wrong with Conner, that his history is more like a Wikipedia page reading then actually talking about his life which I’m sure we will get more into as the series goes on.